- Family : THEACEAE
(Tea Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : CHAAY FAMILY (चाय फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Theaceae
- Basionym : Thea sinensis L.
- Synonym(s) : Camella thea Link
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze
- Common name : Tea plant, Common tea
- Vernacular name :
- Theyilai (Tamil)
- Cha (Oria)
- Theyaka (Telugu)
- Chaikapatta (Hindi)
- Tea gida (Kannada)
- Chaya, Theyila (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub or Tree
- Habitat : Forests, Raised in plantations
- Comments / notes : Often in cultivation on hilly slopes of higher elevations; Sometimes as an escape from cultivation into wild; Leaf extract is used as beverage.
- Key identification features : Shrub up to 2 m high, branches glabrous; Leaves elliptic-oblong, coriaceous; Flowers solitary, axillary, nodding, white; Capsules leathery, trigonous or subglobose.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap district
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Literature :
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- P.K . Hajra ., D.M. Verma and G.S. Giri (1996). Materials For The Flora Of Arunachal Pradesh , Vol (1), Pg : 220
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Camellia sinensis. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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